About the Organization
Deloitte is a leading global professional services firm. Their Government & Public Services (GPS) division required sophisticated solutions to access and utilize data from their ERP Oracle database for executive dashboards and leadership-facing reports.
The challenge involved integrating highly sensitive financial and project data seamlessly and securely across a complex, multi-system enterprise landscape — with teams across the US, India, South Africa, and other international offices all requiring unified access to governed APIs.
The Challenge
Deloitte faced significant hurdles connecting their ERP system to internal systems for executive dashboards and leadership reporting:
Complex multi-system integration: Needed to integrate data from Oracle (ERP), SAP HANA, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and internal database systems — each with different connection requirements and security models.
Enterprise authentication complexity: Required LDAP/LDAPS Active Directory integration for seamless single sign-on across all API access points — critical for a firm of Deloitte's scale.
Global team coordination: Development teams across 4 continents needed consistent, governed API access without region-specific custom solutions.
Continuous infrastructure evolution: The platform needed to adapt through 6 major infrastructure changes over a decade — from on-premise to cloud migrations, database upgrades, and architectural shifts.
The Solution
DreamFactory was deployed as a governed API platform connecting multiple enterprise data sources, with the flexibility to evolve through six major infrastructure phases over a decade:
ERP System connectivity: Direct Oracle database integration providing governed REST API access to financial and project data for executive dashboards and leadership reporting.
Multi-database support: Simultaneous connections to Oracle, SAP HANA, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and internal systems through a single managed platform — standardizing API access regardless of underlying database technology.
Enterprise authentication: LDAP/LDAPS Active Directory integration providing seamless SSO for development teams across 4 continents — with role-based access control meeting Deloitte's security standards.
Infrastructure resilience: The platform adapted through 6 major infrastructure evolutions over 10 years, demonstrating the ability to survive and thrive through continuous modernization cycles.
The Results
10-year platform tenure: DreamFactory has served as Deloitte GPS's API backbone for a full decade — one of the longest-running enterprise API platform deployments in the industry.
6 infrastructure evolutions survived: The platform adapted through six major infrastructure changes including cloud migrations, database upgrades, and architectural shifts — proving genuine technical resilience.
4-continent operations: Development teams across the US, India, South Africa, and other international offices access governed APIs through a unified platform.
Executive dashboard delivery: Leadership receives real-time data from ERP and enterprise systems through governed API endpoints, enabling data-driven decision making at the highest levels.
The decade-long tenure across 6 infrastructure evolutions represents extraordinary platform durability — demonstrating that DreamFactory can serve as genuinely permanent API infrastructure in the most demanding enterprise environments.
